Category: Off the Wall

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. -- John F. Kennedy JFK's most famous line, spoken at his presidential inauguration in 1961, is often bandied about as an admonition to serve your government...

And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America... The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. -- Lyndon Johnson, 1964 This is the richest country on Earth and we have 40 million in...

The Christmas turkey has been reduced to a gnawed carcass of bones and the sinewy dark meat that no one wants. The plastic tree has been crammed back into the attic and - we hope - you have recovered from your New Year's hangover. The 2019 Cute Kittens calendar on the...

Christmas songs arrive in three boxes, each cardboard container uniquely wrapped and shoved under the Christmas tree where the winking lights cast a festive glow on the shiny paper. The first box, wrapped in purple and gold, contains songs that celebrate the birth of...

I never knew my father’s father. He was a lineman for the county, and got himself fried long before I arrived. No one wanted to talk about him. I know him best through a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that he cut from the Nashville Tennessean. He was a baseball...

Tuesday has no feel. - Newman Tuesday is the most nothing day of the week. The only purpose of Tuesday is to remind you of everything that you failed to accomplish yesterday. So, to sweeten the oncoming dreariness, we provide a sampler of songs that will make your...